I find this statement ironic in that WindowMaker (which I use both on my Linux box at home and my Solaris box at work) is based heavily (at least originally) on NextStep - a Steve Jobs, et. al invention. Aqua has a lot of roots in NextStep as well. Cut from the same cloth as far as I can see. I like WindowMaker a lot but no X UI has the consistency of a codified OS interface that's driven by one company vs. a merry band of hackers.
Each has it's plusses and minuses. I'm just happy that I can use Mac apps on my G3 and still have UNIX underneath (hey, I still like Photoslop better than The Gimp). Then I can use Linux/Windowmaker/X on my Intel box as well with its joys/quirks as well.
My question is this then: What is the NSA (or what do we think the NSA is) going to do about IPsec? IPsec supports 3DES - I'm working on a chip right now for my company that works with an IPsec encryption chip (our chip doesn't actually do the encryption). The IETF is an international standards body not governed by the NSA/US and as I recall (I don't keep up _that_ much with IETF meetings), they pretty much blew off the US Feds.
Any thoughts?
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I _love_ Linux for most things, but for graphics, a Mac still can't be beat. Try printing out slide scans using The Gimp and a Epson Photo printer without getting the colors all f'ed up. Accurate color printing under Linux still has a _long_ way to go (coupled with the fact that most Linux/Gimp hackers are primarily interested only in graphics for the web - unless somebody can show me otherwise). For this reason alone I will use my Mac G3. For everything else, there's Linux.:)
I have to agree. The idea of splitting along the lines of OS/Apps/MSIE/etc. still leaves only one Mini-MS (pinkie in corner of mouth) per market segment. Split them into three parallel companies where none of the officers that hold stock in one can hold stock in any of the others, ban them from ever merging, and let them fight it out. AT&T -> RBOCs is a semi-pertinent example and they turned out alright. Of course, the downfall is that they're merging again - very, very bad. We're going to end up with monopolies that need to be broken. But I think the horizontal split can work if the Mini-MS' are kept from getting back together.
I have to agree with a previous post that states this is Fair Use - for two reasons: The first is that this is parody. The second is that this is for non-commercial 'academic' use. If somebody opened a completely separate site with the entire contents of say, Bank of America, but in 'Elmer Fudd' then _maybe_ that _might_ be infringment. This is just as bad as the 'F*r Dumm*es' a-holes.
Now I just wish I was one of those Internet Millionares - I'd be quite inclined to start a legal defense fund and lobbying group against foolish companies (like IDG).
Do you ever get the feeling there's a reason that they don't want to patch those gaping holes? I'm not too much on conspiracy theories, but the holes certainly make really nice backdoors for MS to poke around (not to mention any law enforcement). I'll stick with my Linux box and firewall. Even if they're not exploiting those openings, why risk it? I don't understand why well educated individuals that use Windows don't do more to combat this (either through big PR or technical means).
Has anybody run a packet sniffer from a Windows box? I'm curious to know if there are any errant packets heading to Redmond or some other random IP address.
Newspapers are dying (IMHO) but not in the last-gasp, nothing more kind of way. I agree with previous posters that newspapers need to get on the ball and stick with local reporting. But not the one-sided tripe that tends to grace the pages of fish-wrappers like the Boston Globe. Please either make it impartial (and non-sensational - something most media can't seem to stay away from at all, no thanks to Geraldo Rivera et al) or let both sides do the talking.
The web affords me the opportunity to see multiple sides of a story by going to sites like The Economist as well as another hole of poor journalism, CNN (have I made enough provacative statements as to get moderated down yet?). For this simple reason, I will continue to stay away from newspapers. Reading a rehash of an AP or Reuters story isn't what I want to see. I prefer to see raw data - I don't want it spoon fed. I'll make the decision. I have a brain and I like to use it (something that newspapers and media in general seem to have forgotten). If newspapers can actually start impartially reporting once again what went on at the local level (perhaps the one thing that I _might_ give to the Globe) then perhaps they can get their readership back. However, there's no way in hell that they're going to gain back an audience delivering the same info that thousands of other online sources already generate. Print is just too slow for that.
Perhaps this has been covered in another thread somewhere, but with little doubt, the DVD CCA is attempting to hold a monopoly on content distribution on DVDs. Wouldn't it be possible to file a lawsuit against the DVD CCA to this affect given that enforcement of a monopoly is illegal regardless of what the DMCA states?
Rob Landley didn't seem to have too many positive things to say about them. The article above is an interesting read. They go into a little more detail about the background of the founder(s).
a) he has a "special" material that seems to produce this effect b) he describes quantum theory with classical physics
Now, with the reading of a) in the article I already took a serious doubt on the work the man has done. It just reeks of magnetized water or snake oil. What is the material is my question? Needs more review very certainly. I doubt it will hold up.
Now with b) I take more issue - the reason that classical physics isn't used to describe subatomic particles and interactions is that it just doesn't hold up. Now unless we've been stupid or blind or both I find it hard to believe that describing his procedure with classical physics is even possible. Maybe that's why it seems to work in the first place.
Oh well. We'll find out in time that this is probably a sham.
I remember waaayy back when, while I was getting my ham radio license, the instructor was discussing the use of his hand-held FM Band radio. He indicated that nobody he knew would hold that damn radio antenna anywhere near their heads. They'd orient the device so the antenna was as far away from their noggins as possible while they were transmitting to keep from getting bombarded by microwaves. If I'm not mistaken, cell phones have a slightly higher frequency range and similar power emissions.
I have a cell phone. I use it about ten minutes a year. In dire emergencies. I find that I sometimes get headaches after using the thing. I think I'm all set with using cell phones from now on. In addition, it's very rude to get a phone call in public, in a quiet place. Having gone to BU, I know all about rude (usually rich and foreign) students who would get calls in the middle of class! And answer them!
How about names of cities throughout the world? This makes it easy to ID the important machines (capitals) and can also give an idea of geographical location. It's not the most inspired convention, but it's an idea - and will probably keep the PHB's mouth shut.
When I was still in school a few years ago I had this same idea presented to me in a senior design project meeting/lecture. If you're getting your EE/CE/CSE I really wouldn't worry to much about the certification. I suppose it won't hurt, but in the end, it's just one more piece of paper that only proves that you know how to take a test. I've only been in the real world for 3 1/2 years now and each company that I've interviewed with, they've been looking for the following:
1) experience (that includes what you did for projects in school)
2) knowledge (most interviews will have one interviewer ask you technical questions, at least that's been my experience)
3) and the final (and sometimes most important issue) is how well everyone on the team thinks you will fit in with the group. If your personality doesn't fit with everyone else's it may lead to clashes. Now, that isn't the overriding factor but I've seen it taken with a fair amount of weight when all of the interviewers talk after the interview process.
In the end, if you want to get the certification then take the test. It can't hurt but I don't know if right now in this economy it will matter all that much.
The biggest issue I have with this is that all of these "partners" are interested in providing nothing more than essentially an online catalog for us to buy more garbage that none of us really need all that much. I guess that's the way the world is turning (or has already become). I'm not too thrilled about having to "rent" a movie over I2, providing marketing data to the studios, and then having ads jammed down my throat in a banner at the bottom of the screen while I watch the movie. I'll stick to DVDs and flat rate watching for as long as possible, thanks - that way I don't provide as much marketing data (if any) and I can watch it without nasty PPV prices.
Come see the Internet2: Your online entertainment and shopping complex - all from the comfort of your sofa. Don't worry, your marketing data is secure with us. *nudge* *nudge* *wink* *wink*
Calm yourself down. Just look in your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc or ~/.tcshrc (or whatever the rc file is for your favorite shell) for "alias rm='rm -i'" - perhaps you've heard of this "-i" flag? It's the remove interactively flag. Take out this alias and re-source the rc file. There will be no more asking questions when you remove a file.
RH has it's quirks, but when I can set up a RH 5.2 box in 45 minutes with DHCP for my cable modem and firewall and all of my apps (like ApplixWare) I have no reason to switch. I've been using Linux for 5+ years (starting with Slackware and moving to RH in the 3.x days) and while I do have to make some mods to get RH to behave like a good like Linux box (i.e, not using the crappy RH print filters), I prefer that over wasting my time (the little of it that I have outside of work) learning a new distro. Just my two pennies.
I second that. I could have made a boatload of money by staying at my last company - they were bought out a couple of months ago. However, I hated the environment and I hated the CEO. I was the fourth employee and I just left it all behind. There's way more to life than lots of money.
Of course, now I'm at another startup, but the work environment rocks and so does the work.
If you are looking for some other bad boys there are plenty of other startups that are doing the same thing. As I recall, Nexabit plans on having a set of boxes that you can link together and route up to 64 OC-192c streams. It might be more. Check these places out:
Hmmm. Well, when DTV (digital TV or HDTV, take your pick) finally does make it to the mainstream in a couple of years (or more?) are you still going to use your analog TV? The fact remains that DVD is still MPEG-2 with an MP3 track (well, Dolby Digital, which is just MP3 with slightly different headers). When digital TVs come out in a few years just get a new DVD player which has a FireWire interface. All DVD players should have FireWire inputs/outputs (by then they should be recordable) and you can hook up to your DTV. DVD will still be MPEG-2, the only change you'll need to make is the interface on the components - the DVDs themselves will still work. It's for this exact reason that I didn't buy a top of the line Sony 7000 for $999. I knew that in a few years I'll upgrade a better player, but DVDs will still work.
I think by now the electronics industry has learned how much of a PITA it is to change standards within a couple of years - hence the reason that CDs and VideoCDs (bleccchh) still work in DVD players. And making a next generation digital video player should be more or less free (from a hardware/software implementation standpoint).
At any rate, I'm not worried about my DVDs going out of style any time soon. And I get to enjoy a wonderful picture in the meantime.
However, I believe that his point is that if you don't pick choice A) that the powers that be (big government and big business) will implement it anyway, without your knowledge - whether you like it or not. I wouldn't be shocked to see this happen, but predicting the future is tough. I don't necessarily agree with A) and as it is now, actually dislike A. The job will be to keep it from happening ever.
At the same time, I'm very pro 2nd Amendment. If the people are armed, the government is less likely to do something foolish or unpopular. Have doubts about this: then read some memoirs of the Founding Fathers and you'll find this to be exactly why the 2nd Amendment is in The Constitution (also known as toilet paper to some politicians in the USA). The problem that I have is that most guns are used for something other than checks and balances (crime) and it has put a severely bad face on firearms. I have little faith that having cameras everywhere would be any different.
I will say that the one thing I'm very afraid of is the government and big business having all of the power and the individual left to be exploited. It's good reason to revolt.
If you all remember, back in the early 90's Compton's Multimedia tried to pull a fast one like this too - stating that they owned the patent on multimedia encyclopedias and hypertext or some such. The patent was granted sometime around '93 I believe and it was quickly struck down by the courts. Just b/c a patent exists doesn't mean that it's valid - once the courts say it's good and set a precedent then it can be a valid patent. I'm certainly not a patent laywer (nor do I play one on TV) but to my knowledge this is how it works.
Anybody want to sue these bastards and put their patent to the test? I doubt it will hold much water.
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I find this statement ironic in that WindowMaker (which I use both on my Linux box at home and my Solaris box at work) is based heavily (at least originally) on NextStep - a Steve Jobs, et. al invention. Aqua has a lot of roots in NextStep as well. Cut from the same cloth as far as I can see. I like WindowMaker a lot but no X UI has the consistency of a codified OS interface that's driven by one company vs. a merry band of hackers.
Each has it's plusses and minuses. I'm just happy that I can use Mac apps on my G3 and still have UNIX underneath (hey, I still like Photoslop better than The Gimp). Then I can use Linux/Windowmaker/X on my Intel box as well with its joys/quirks as well.
My question is this then: What is the NSA (or what do we think the NSA is) going to do about IPsec? IPsec supports 3DES - I'm working on a chip right now for my company that works with an IPsec encryption chip (our chip doesn't actually do the encryption). The IETF is an international standards body not governed by the NSA/US and as I recall (I don't keep up _that_ much with IETF meetings), they pretty much blew off the US Feds.
Any thoughts?
I _love_ Linux for most things, but for graphics, a Mac still can't be beat. Try printing out slide scans using The Gimp and a Epson Photo printer without getting the colors all f'ed up. Accurate color printing under Linux still has a _long_ way to go (coupled with the fact that most Linux/Gimp hackers are primarily interested only in graphics for the web - unless somebody can show me otherwise). For this reason alone I will use my Mac G3. For everything else, there's Linux. :)
Windows? What's that?
I have to agree. The idea of splitting along the lines of OS/Apps/MSIE/etc. still leaves only one Mini-MS (pinkie in corner of mouth) per market segment. Split them into three parallel companies where none of the officers that hold stock in one can hold stock in any of the others, ban them from ever merging, and let them fight it out. AT&T -> RBOCs is a semi-pertinent example and they turned out alright. Of course, the downfall is that they're merging again - very, very bad. We're going to end up with monopolies that need to be broken. But I think the horizontal split can work if the Mini-MS' are kept from getting back together.
To start - Ob'IANAL'.
I have to agree with a previous post that states this is Fair Use - for two reasons: The first is that this is parody. The second is that this is for non-commercial 'academic' use. If somebody opened a completely separate site with the entire contents of say, Bank of America, but in 'Elmer Fudd' then _maybe_ that _might_ be infringment. This is just as bad as the 'F*r Dumm*es' a-holes.
Now I just wish I was one of those Internet Millionares - I'd be quite inclined to start a legal defense fund and lobbying group against foolish companies (like IDG).
Do you ever get the feeling there's a reason that they don't want to patch those gaping holes? I'm not too much on conspiracy theories, but the holes certainly make really nice backdoors for MS to poke around (not to mention any law enforcement). I'll stick with my Linux box and firewall. Even if they're not exploiting those openings, why risk it? I don't understand why well educated individuals that use Windows don't do more to combat this (either through big PR or technical means).
Has anybody run a packet sniffer from a Windows box? I'm curious to know if there are any errant packets heading to Redmond or some other random IP address.
Newspapers are dying (IMHO) but not in the last-gasp, nothing more kind of way. I agree with previous posters that newspapers need to get on the ball and stick with local reporting. But not the one-sided tripe that tends to grace the pages of fish-wrappers like the Boston Globe. Please either make it impartial (and non-sensational - something most media can't seem to stay away from at all, no thanks to Geraldo Rivera et al) or let both sides do the talking.
The web affords me the opportunity to see multiple sides of a story by going to sites like The Economist as well as another hole of poor journalism, CNN (have I made enough provacative statements as to get moderated down yet?). For this simple reason, I will continue to stay away from newspapers. Reading a rehash of an AP or Reuters story isn't what I want to see. I prefer to see raw data - I don't want it spoon fed. I'll make the decision. I have a brain and I like to use it (something that newspapers and media in general seem to have forgotten). If newspapers can actually start impartially reporting once again what went on at the local level (perhaps the one thing that I _might_ give to the Globe) then perhaps they can get their readership back. However, there's no way in hell that they're going to gain back an audience delivering the same info that thousands of other online sources already generate. Print is just too slow for that.
Perhaps this has been covered in another thread somewhere, but with little doubt, the DVD CCA is attempting to hold a monopoly on content distribution on DVDs. Wouldn't it be possible to file a lawsuit against the DVD CCA to this affect given that enforcement of a monopoly is illegal regardless of what the DMCA states?
http://www.fool.com/portfolios/rulemaker/2000/rule maker000106.htm
Rob Landley didn't seem to have too many positive things to say about them. The article above is an interesting read. They go into a little more detail about the background of the founder(s).
I wish, my attention span is only...
Wait. What was I writing about?
I have two basic issues with Mr. Mills:
a) he has a "special" material that seems to produce this effect
b) he describes quantum theory with classical physics
Now, with the reading of a) in the article I already took a serious doubt on the work the man has done. It just reeks of magnetized water or snake oil. What is the material is my question? Needs more review very certainly. I doubt it will hold up.
Now with b) I take more issue - the reason that classical physics isn't used to describe subatomic particles and interactions is that it just doesn't hold up. Now unless we've been stupid or blind or both I find it hard to believe that describing his procedure with classical physics is even possible. Maybe that's why it seems to work in the first place.
Oh well. We'll find out in time that this is probably a sham.
nick
I remember waaayy back when, while I was getting my ham radio license, the instructor was discussing the use of his hand-held FM Band radio. He indicated that nobody he knew would hold that damn radio antenna anywhere near their heads. They'd orient the device so the antenna was as far away from their noggins as possible while they were transmitting to keep from getting bombarded by microwaves. If I'm not mistaken, cell phones have a slightly higher frequency range and similar power emissions.
I have a cell phone. I use it about ten minutes a year. In dire emergencies. I find that I sometimes get headaches after using the thing. I think I'm all set with using cell phones from now on. In addition, it's very rude to get a phone call in public, in a quiet place. Having gone to BU, I know all about rude (usually rich and foreign) students who would get calls in the middle of class! And answer them!
How about names of cities throughout the world? This makes it easy to ID the important machines (capitals) and can also give an idea of geographical location. It's not the most inspired convention, but it's an idea - and will probably keep the PHB's mouth shut.
When I was still in school a few years ago I had this same idea presented to me in a senior design project meeting/lecture. If you're getting your EE/CE/CSE I really wouldn't worry to much about the certification. I suppose it won't hurt, but in the end, it's just one more piece of paper that only proves that you know how to take a test. I've only been in the real world for 3 1/2 years now and each company that I've interviewed with, they've been looking for the following:
1) experience (that includes what you did for projects in school)
2) knowledge (most interviews will have one interviewer ask you technical questions, at least that's been my experience)
3) and the final (and sometimes most important issue) is how well everyone on the team thinks you will fit in with the group. If your personality doesn't fit with everyone else's it may lead to clashes. Now, that isn't the overriding factor but I've seen it taken with a fair amount of weight when all of the interviewers talk after the interview process.
In the end, if you want to get the certification then take the test. It can't hurt but I don't know if right now in this economy it will matter all that much.
Just my $0.02.
The biggest issue I have with this is that all of these "partners" are interested in providing nothing more than essentially an online catalog for us to buy more garbage that none of us really need all that much. I guess that's the way the world is turning (or has already become). I'm not too thrilled about having to "rent" a movie over I2, providing marketing data to the studios, and then having ads jammed down my throat in a banner at the bottom of the screen while I watch the movie. I'll stick to DVDs and flat rate watching for as long as possible, thanks - that way I don't provide as much marketing data (if any) and I can watch it without nasty PPV prices.
Come see the Internet2: Your online entertainment and shopping complex - all from the comfort of your sofa. Don't worry, your marketing data is secure with us. *nudge* *nudge* *wink* *wink*
I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing...
-- Thomas Jefferson
'nuff said.
nick
Calm yourself down. Just look in your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc or ~/.tcshrc (or whatever the rc file is for your favorite shell) for "alias rm='rm -i'" - perhaps you've heard of this "-i" flag? It's the remove interactively flag. Take out this alias and re-source the rc file. There will be no more asking questions when you remove a file.
RH has it's quirks, but when I can set up a RH 5.2 box in 45 minutes with DHCP for my cable modem and firewall and all of my apps (like ApplixWare) I have no reason to switch. I've been using Linux for 5+ years (starting with Slackware and moving to RH in the 3.x days) and while I do have to make some mods to get RH to behave like a good like Linux box (i.e, not using the crappy RH print filters), I prefer that over wasting my time (the little of it that I have outside of work) learning a new distro. Just my two pennies.
nick
I second that. I could have made a boatload of money by staying at my last company - they were bought out a couple of months ago. However, I hated the environment and I hated the CEO. I was the fourth employee and I just left it all behind. There's way more to life than lots of money.
Of course, now I'm at another startup, but the work environment rocks and so does the work.
If you are looking for some other bad boys there are plenty of other startups that are doing the same thing. As I recall, Nexabit plans on having a set of boxes that you can link together and route up to 64 OC-192c streams. It might be more. Check these places out:
http://www.nexabit.com/
http://www.argon.com/
http://www.ironbridgenetworks.com/
I'm sure there are others I'm missing.
nick
Hmmm. Well, when DTV (digital TV or HDTV, take your pick) finally does make it to the mainstream in a couple of years (or more?) are you still going to use your analog TV? The fact remains that DVD is still MPEG-2 with an MP3 track (well, Dolby Digital, which is just MP3 with slightly different headers). When digital TVs come out in a few years just get a new DVD player which has a FireWire interface. All DVD players should have FireWire inputs/outputs (by then they should be recordable) and you can hook up to your DTV. DVD will still be MPEG-2, the only change you'll need to make is the interface on the components - the DVDs themselves will still work. It's for this exact reason that I didn't buy a top of the line Sony 7000 for $999. I knew that in a few years I'll upgrade a better player, but DVDs will still work.
I think by now the electronics industry has learned how much of a PITA it is to change standards within a couple of years - hence the reason that CDs and VideoCDs (bleccchh) still work in DVD players. And making a next generation digital video player should be more or less free (from a hardware/software implementation standpoint).
At any rate, I'm not worried about my DVDs going out of style any time soon. And I get to enjoy a wonderful picture in the meantime.
nick
Sorry to say this, but you can have my can of Mountain Dew when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers ;)
nick
However, I believe that his point is that if you don't pick choice A) that the powers that be (big government and big business) will implement it anyway, without your knowledge - whether you like it or not. I wouldn't be shocked to see this happen, but predicting the future is tough. I don't necessarily agree with A) and as it is now, actually dislike A. The job will be to keep it from happening ever.
At the same time, I'm very pro 2nd Amendment. If the people are armed, the government is less likely to do something foolish or unpopular. Have doubts about this: then read some memoirs of the Founding Fathers and you'll find this to be exactly why the 2nd Amendment is in The Constitution (also known as toilet paper to some politicians in the USA). The problem that I have is that most guns are used for something other than checks and balances (crime) and it has put a severely bad face on firearms. I have little faith that having cameras everywhere would be any different.
I will say that the one thing I'm very afraid of is the government and big business having all of the power and the individual left to be exploited. It's good reason to revolt.
Any overseas takers on this issue?
nick
If you all remember, back in the early 90's Compton's Multimedia tried to pull a fast one like this too - stating that they owned the patent on multimedia encyclopedias and hypertext or some such. The patent was granted sometime around '93 I believe and it was quickly struck down by the courts. Just b/c a patent exists doesn't mean that it's valid - once the courts say it's good and set a precedent then it can be a valid patent. I'm certainly not a patent laywer (nor do I play one on TV) but to my knowledge this is how it works.
Anybody want to sue these bastards and put their patent to the test? I doubt it will hold much water.
-nick-